Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-12-17
THE EAST.

ON Uue SGn GHe tableware WOrkmen In
nineteen fiint-glass factories at Pittsburgh,
Pa, to the number of fourteen hundred,
were ordered to strike because the rules and
scale adopted by the manufacturers did not
suit them.
The steamer Algiers struck and sunk the
schooner Nellie s. Jernell off Lewes, Del,
on the 9th, three of the latter's crew being
drowned.
JOHANN MosTs case has been appealed to
the New York Supreme Court, and the An
archist was released on the 9th in S., 900
bail
HENRY GEORGE decided on the 10th not to
be candidate for the Presidency next year,
| and not to put the Labor party into the
campaign.
REV. CHARLES BERRY. of London, declined
the call to Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, on
the 10th, alleging as his reason for SO doing
the opportunity that is opened to him OF
doing national work in England
SAMUEL SPENCER was on the 10th elected
to succeed Robert Garrett as president Of
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
By the fall of a car in the shaft of q coal
mine in Luzerne, Pa, on the 10th three
men were instantly killed and two fatally
and others seriously injured
FIRE on the 10th destroyed W. G. Pen
nypackers barrel factory at Philadelphia
Loss, 100000.
MRS. JOHN JACOB AsToR, wife of the mill
ionaire, died on the 18th at New York. aged
sixty one years.
The loss of the ship Alfred Watts bound
to Liverpool from Philadelphia, was report
ed on the 18th. Twenty-Five persons were
| drowned
IT was said on the 18th that the new
h1gh-license law in Pennsylvania would
drive many saloon-keepers out of business
COLONEL MCDONALD, Of the United States
Fish Commission, says that the Government
last year planted 80, 100000 shad and the
States $50, 100000
The italian steamship Chandermagor
landed 1927 Italian immigrants in New
York on the 18th. A large part OF them
started for Chicago.
JOEL CRoWTHER, aged twenty 1.-TWO years,
| while drunk on the 18th at Claremont Vt
| choked his mother to death.
| SINCE the recent movement to curtail the
production Of oil the stocks have been re-
duced by 1,3OO,OOO barrels
SEARLE, VANNEMAN & Co., jobbers of no.
tions and white goods at Philadelphia,
failed on the 18th for $265,OOO
! D. DE CASTRO & Co., of New York, shipping
and commission merchants, failed on the
18th for nearly 81, OOO 600
WEST AND SOUTH.
| AT Elmwood, Tex, the Red river over
flowed its banks on the 9th, destroying a
large portion Of the cotton crop in that
vicinity. Tt5
MASKED men dragged Mrs. Kingston
Br own and her eighteen-year- old son from
their home at East Bernard, Col, on the 9th
and murdered them. No cause was known
for the crime .s-ses~.e.
The Grand Army Of the Republic will
hold its next National enoampment at Co.
lumbus, o., during the second week of Sep
| TENDER.
| THE death of Benjamin Rush Plumley.
one OF the early Abolitionists and an asso-
ciate Of Garrison and Phillips, occurred at
Galveston, Tex, on the 9th, at the age of
seventy-seven years
CRUISE RoDERIQUEz was hanged at Uvalde.
Tex, on the 9th for the murder of Pancho
Garcia He protested his innocence to the
| last.
A VALUABLE horse died from hydrophobia
in Chicago on the 9th, caused by the bite
of dog. ii 81
AT Bear City, Kan, gang of horse
thieves was attacked by citizens on the 9th,
and three of the former were killed
/ A TRAIN on the St Louis, Arkansas 4
Texas railroad was stopped on the 10th by